hè​xī

crane knee

  • created sense approved 鹤膝/鶴膝 · hè​xī · crane knee — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    鹤膝 / 鶴膝

    hè​xī

    crane knee

    (bound form) a term in traditional poetics and calligraphy referring to a specific stylistic defect or stroke shape resembling the knobby joint of a crane's leg

    鹤 (literal) → 鹤/鶴 · hè · crane 膝 (literal) → 膝 · xī · knee

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense